INSPIRED BY NATURE: ENGINEERING AS AN ART FORM
Beauty in design goes well beyond architecture and ornamentation. It
is found in all fields of ENGINEERING AND HAS EVEN LAUNCHED AN
ENTIRELY NEW FIELD OF BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED DESIGN CALLED BIOMIMICRY.
Biomimicry studies how NATURE SOLVES PROBLEMS, such as flight and
low-drag swimming, and applies those principles to engineered
solutions. This field of study has brought about incredible
breakthroughs – microscopic cameras that can “swarm” into a
larger image, swimsuits that have the texture of shark skin, and
robots that can climb windows or fly like butterflies. In this
upcoming public lecture, University of Canterbury mechanical and
biomedical engineer Dr Deborah Munro, will talk about her work
designing everything from robotic dinosaurs to orthopaedic implants to
prostheses and how studying natural movement informed her best
solutions. Dr Munro was one of the design engineers for the Jurassic
Park Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, where you can view her
mother and baby ultrasaur, parasaur, and T-Rex. She also worked for
NASA and worked on the AX-5 spacesuit, the infrared airplane-mounted
telescope called SOFIA, and an animal habitat that flew on the Space
Shuttle. Her recent work has been in orthopaedic implant design and
biomechanics, with projects including total hip replacement and
measurement of spinal fusion with implanted sensors. _ _ _UC Connect
public lecture_: Inspired by Nature: Engineering as an Art Form by Dr
Deborah Munro, Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering (Lead for
Medical Engineering), UC Engineering.
Contact website: www.canterbury.ac.nz/public-lectures/
[http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/public-lectures/]
Additional information
Early bird registration will commence four weeks out from lecture date
and will be available until all places are full. A second allocation
of tickets will be available 10 days prior to the lecture. If you do
not manage to register, you are welcome to arrive on the day and wait
for all available seats to be released five minutes prior to the
lecture commencing. The UC CONNECT PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES OFFERS THE
COMMUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND TOPICAL, interesting, educational
lectures on a range of topics given by experts in their fields. To
receive notifications on upcoming UC CONNECT SPEAKERS, join
our mailing list
[http://canterbury.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cd05861f83497e0ea049c7b17&id=cbe60119c0].
All UC CONNECT LECTURES ARE RECORDED AND UPLOADED TO OUR YOUTUBE
CHANNEL here
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D0DE06F56864BA4] (approx.
uploaded 1 -2 weeks post event).
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